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Personal Relationship Manager

December 10, 2007

I am a tad obses­sive about my address book. While there are sev­eral thou­sand peo­ple in it, I tend to believe that I need to make sure that they stay cur­rent and I look to my address book as the cen­ter of my social net­work. but it ought to work more like a per­sonal rela­tion­ship man­ager. I was recently describing […]

2007 Predictions

January 1, 2007

This year marks the 10th anniver­sary edi­tion of the TNL.net pre­dic­tions for the year ahead. In past years, I’ve been bat­ting above 50 per­cent in terms of pre­dic­tions, except when it comes to nam­ing what will hap­pen with spe­cific com­pa­nies. The trends are gen­er­ally cor­rect (or in some case, early) and I always look at this […]

2006 Predictions — The Review

December 31, 2006

It’s been a tra­di­tion on TNL.net to have pre­dic­tions for the com­ing year and I will soon have a set out for 2007 but before I move on to that, I need to ful­fill the other tra­di­tion on TNL.net, which is to look at the pre­vi­ous year’s pre­dic­tions and rate how suc­cess­ful (or not) I was in pre­dict­ing the year ahead. […]

Could Apple Solidify GSM in the US?

September 26, 2006

ThinkSe­cret reports that the much-rumored-about iPhone from Apple is com­ing and will be avail­able exclu­sively through Cin­gu­lar. If true, it would mean that Apple has decided to take a posi­tion on what phone stack it is will­ing to sup­port and has come out on the side of GSM. Under­stand­ing the mobile land­scape In a lot of ways, the […]

Ruthless Efficiencies

July 8, 2006

As read­ers of this site know, I strongly believe that we are now in the mid­dle of a major over­all shift in eco­nomic trend that hasn’t been seen since the intro­duc­tion of the paper bill in late 1700s eng­land. Seen under this lens, I’m start­ing to think that there may be some truths to the claims that […]

Future Tense — IPzation

May 12, 2006

The con­cept of IPza­tion, in my view, is that every­thing elec­tronic inter­ac­tion is mov­ing to a level where the com­mu­ni­ca­tion will hap­pen over an Inter­net Pro­to­col layer. We are already start­ing to see the begin­ning of that phe­nom­e­non with Voice Over IP, which moves the tra­di­tional phone com­mu­ni­ca­tions over to the Inter­net. Sim­i­larly, tele­vi­sion sta­tions are starting […]

2006 Predictions

December 28, 2005

Since 1997, It’s been a long run­ning game here at TNL.net cen­tral to make wild pre­dic­tions about the upcom­ing year that have turned out to be only some­what off (and, as always, I promise to revisit them around the end of next year to assess how far off base I was) so here goes this year’s edi­tion. Broadband […]

2005 Predictions: Keeping the Score

December 19, 2005

So it’s that time of the year. As is the case every year, I’m review­ing the pre­dic­tions I made last year and look­ing at the score. Voice Over IP The big sur­prise here was the acqui­si­tion game. When I made the pre­dic­tions last year, i thought that the acquir­ers would be larger tel­cos. How­ever, com­pa­nies like Ebay and Yahoo! have […]

Doing the numbers on the AOL-WeblogsInc deal

October 6, 2005

AOL bought Weblogs inc., the two year old weblog net­work founded by Jason Cala­ca­nis and Brian Alvey, for a num­ber that is rumored to be any­where between $25 mil­lion and $40 mil­lion. In this process, Time Warner may be pro­vid­ing some ideas as to the val­u­a­tion of blogs by tra­di­tional media. The power of the network […]

Why Scale Matters

April 12, 2005

Jeff Jarvis says that scale doesn’t scale. Fred Wil­son fol­lows up by talk­ing about the new scale. While I agree that new mar­kets can be born out of aggre­ga­tion, I dis­agree with the con­cept of scale not scal­ing. The prob­lem is one of, well, scale. Let’s say that I want to make a movie that will rival Star Wars […]